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...excerpts are less so. Among the most intriguing is from Not Love Alone, an opera about the love life on a collective farm by Rodion Shchedrin. The youngest composer represented on the album (and husband of Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya), Shchedrin finds room for originality within conventional Soviet Realism-which means late, late, late Romanticism. However superficial, his melodies are refreshingly singable. Mezzo-Soprano Arkhipova renders all with intelligence and virtuosity...
...painters in their 30s and 40s who throw together unsocialist images just because they feel like it. The Western world sees precious little of their work, for the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists is dominated by middle-aged academicians who learned their trade in the heyday of Stalinist realism. Their ponderous paeans to Lenin and heroic bobbin tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition affords Westerners a glimpse behind the red-tape curtain. One such view is offered by the new display of Russian painting at Manhattan...
...with Love attempts to blend realism and idealism, an unstable mixture. Some scenes, for example a museum visit shown in still pictures, are as static as a photograph album. Still, even the weak moments are saved by Poitier, who invests his role with a subtle warmth. In the end, he makes his point: the world can use more Sirs...
...Rise of Social Realism...
...Senior Album distributed at the end of the Class' freshman year claimed that Harvard had just gone through a major internal upheaval, "the rise of social realism," lasting, conveniently enough, from 1935 to 1939. The class and intellectual leadership of the Beacon Street man was no more, the Album said; it had shifted to the scholarship holder from the West and Middle West...